Continental Hall Committee, and the number and arrangement of rooms and other details are founded upon the report of the committee, the decisions of the Congress, and the discussions of the National Board as reported in the AMERICAN MONTHLY.

The Continental Hall is to consist of a convenient building to accommodate the offices of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Children of the American Revolution, a library, a room for Board meetings, etc. Connected with this it is proposed to have a Memorial Hall, where the meetings of the Congress may be held. The office building is four stories high, of brick, with light stone basement and trimmings. The entrance is a porch of four columns supporting a balcony. The style is an adaptation of colonial, suggested by the character of the building, and expressing the interior arrangement.

The vestibule opens into a monumental entrance hall, on both sides of which are short corridors leading to offices, three on each side. These are well lighted from the street and from courts between the office building and the hall. The main stairway, well lighted from the courts, is directly back of the entrance hall. A short flight on the axis of the building leads to the Memorial Hall, and on both sides are narrower flights leading to the basement, where are toilet rooms, etc., easy of access. Two elevators are conveniently arranged, one on each side of the stairway.

The Memorial Hall, on a higher level than the entrance hall, opens from a broad landing at the head of the first short flight of steps. At the sides of this landing narrower flights led to the second story of the office building, and thence to the gallery of the hall. The Memorial Hall is intended to serve two purposes; that of monumental hall where revolutionary relics, portraits, etc., are placed permanently on exhibition, and that of an audience room, suitable for the meetings of the Congress, and for rental.

For the former purpose the space under the gallery, on the sides, is divided into twelve alcoves, appropriated to twelve of the original States, while Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the Republic and the geographical center of the Colonies, has place at the end of the hall, opposite the main entrance.

When used for the meetings of the Congress seats are placed in the main portion of the hall, the alcoves being curtained off for conversation rooms, and a temporary stage is erected at the end opposite the entrance. On both sides of the stage are stairways to exits. Near the foot of these stairs are additional

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toilet rooms and storage rooms for seats, etc. also serve as means of exit from the gallery. rooms are provided on both sides of the stage on the main floor. These rooms are accessible from the hall and from the stage. The gallery is on three sides of the hall and has a seating capacity of three hundred. The floor of the hall seats five hundred. It is lighted by a large sky-light and by windows opening on the courts.

The second story of the front part of the building is chiefly occupied by a large library extending across the entire front, reached from the main stairway and from the elevators through a handsome entrance hall. Back of the library, and lighted from the courts, are two large rooms for the President and for the Librarian or Registrars.

In the third story is a large Board meeting room, which can be used for a lunch room at the time of the Congress, a smaller office room or kitchen, and comfortable dressing and toilet rooms. On the fourth floor are offices.

In the basement are provided well-lighted rooms for a printing office, janitor's room, store rooms, etc. The building is fire-proof throughout, and the decorations as costly as funds will permit. ALICE WIGHT ALDEN.

"THE CONTINENTAL HALL."

I TAKE great pleasure in presenting this subject of the "Continental Hall" to the readers of our Magazine, more so from the fact that I am very confident that this is a matter very near the hearts of all of us. At the same time I am fully aware of my own inability to do justice to the subject, but as from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh, so I am emboldened to simply express what my heart dictates, as I wish, like Dorcas of old, to do what I can to aid in this cause, and this is all

that we ask you to do, and I cannot believe there is a member of the Society who does not heartily espouse this cause and wish success to the undertaking, and is willing and eager to contribute to the fund. The benefit of this hall to local Chapters is obvious, so I wish to more particularly emphasize the advantages which members of the Society from a distance will derive therefrom. In the first place they will know and feel that they have a "Home" in Washington where a cordial welcome will ever await them. We all know that the first real need a woman is conscious of is the need of a home, and as the feeling is inate as individuals, so it will manifest itself when those individuals unite and form a society, and I am sure no one can doubt that that need is now pressing. I have heard it argued that there is no hurry for this hall, but I am sure no one who has weighed the matter well could possibly thus decide. Let us consider the subject. We will view the matter first from a practical and economical standpoint. I have already alluded to the advantages of the hall to local Chapters in the matter of saving rent, etc., and also to individual members temporarily in Washington. But to the Society in general this building is a necessity as it absolutely needs a hall of its own of sufficient capacity to accommodate the Congress; we need facilities to provide luncheons for the visiting delegates to the “Congress " during the sessions and thus expedite business by shortening. the noon intermission; we also need parlors in which to entertain the delegates while our guests and in which they may receive their friends; in fact we all need and need it badly, "A Home." I could continue ad infinitum on the advantages of this building, but a word to the wise is sufficient. And now let us view the subject from a sentimental standpoint if you so wish to term it. We all know that history is fraught with accounts of deeds of valor, suffering, and privations endured by the sons of 1776, and alas we also know that the history of the deeds of valor, sufferings, and privations endured by the daughters of 1776 is still an unwritten book, and yet we know, judging the past by the present, that they were the powers behind the throne, they were the unfailing source of encouragement and patriotism, like the still small voice of conscience their influence was felt, so I think this monument should be permanently commemora